This was originally just JIS Roman [0], the Japanese ASCII variant from 1969. Sh...

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This was originally just JIS Roman [0], the Japanese ASCII variant from 1969. Shift-JIS is what much later then added double-byte character set support.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0201

JoshTriplett 3 months ago [–]

Thanks for the correction; you're right.